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DMAMultinational Character String Extensions |
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DMAMultinational Character String Extensions |
You've reached www.infonuovo.com/dma/integration/mncs , the section for the Multinational Character String Extension to the DMA 1.0 Specification. The extensions are proposed to be carried out as an open-source project that extends DMA text support from (16-bit) Unicode to allow for optional occurrence of single-byte and multiple-byte character-code sequences important in many national and multinational settings. When completed, this project location will provide complete coverage of MNCS:
- what the proposed MNCS extension is,
- how it fits with DMA 1.0,
- how MNCS is used to provide integration and interoperability with a variety of systems optimized around different multinational character string formats
- the specialized character-set encodings that go with MNCS operation.
- the benefits of MNCS,
- sources of more information
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The discussion of Multinational Character String Extensions began in 1999 and has not been developed further at this time.
This DMA project area is a collection point for the available information. It will be organized further in preparation for DMware activity in this area.
For now, this is a placeholder and incomplete collection of material.
Next steps include
- collection of further background materials from earlier DMA discussions
- refinement of the current drafts to the level of a worked proposal that covers everything needed for introduction of a trial-use extension for MNCS
The MNCS Extensions were introduced in the June 1999 meeting of the DMA Technical Committee in Costa Mesa, California. Three sponsors proposed to take the work forward out of that meeting.
- Annotated Slides of the MNCS Extension approach are available here (Microsoft PowerPoint 97 in WinZip package). These slides are updated to reflect the discussion at the June 1999 DMA Technical Committee meeting.
The slides were the only materials discussed at the DMA Technical Committee. The following supporting work was not taken to the Technical Committee, pending clean-up and review by a subcommittee that was never convened:
- The draft sketch of the MNCS Extension approach, here in preliminary form, is the basis for the slide presentation.
- The draft MNCS Extensions Proposal is based on the DMA Architectural-Change Proposal model and is included here in preliminary, incomplete form. It is available for further details and additional development under the DMware open-source clearinghouse.
- The draft MNCS Library Proposal is based on the same model and it is included here in very incomplete form. It is available for further development as the MNCS proposals are taken on.
To obtain the latest information , look in http://www.infonuovo.com/dma/integration/MNCS.
The InfoNuovo.com project location http://www.infonuovo.com/dma/integration/MNCS is the initial public location for collection of materials related to the MNCS project.. The project will be continued under InfoNuovo auspices until a stable release is available for open-source adoption.
To obtain Zip package 0.02 of all current MNCS materials, click here (131053-byte Zip file).
UnZip the material into any directory on your computer and use the MNCS.htm page in that directory as the entry for access to all material.
The Zip package is designed to operate entirely from a file-system location. There are shortcuts between files in the package. There are also URLs to web sites. There are no file-system shortcuts to files not provided as part of the package.
created 1999-06-08-03:27 -0700 (pdt) by orcmid
$$Author: Orcmid $
$$Date: 01-05-03 19:51 $
$$Revision: 8 $